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I have to say--If you can get more of that wallpaper, I think that would make it look more finished; the white is so jarring now, and when i envision art there, it looks out of place. Was there a reason you didn't want to continue the papering behind the bed? The paper and headboard are both so beautiful, that if you did that, I don't think you'd need art above the bed.

or if they got the same wallpaper but in another color - like a gold color??

Beyond the obvious for soft art above a bed:
quilt
kimono
scarf
a friend has her son's first set of baby overalls above his bed

How about:
* matting a favorite image, finishing the edge with ribbon (or seam binding or carpet tape), and hanging that?
* a series of canvases (painted, photographs mounted, whatever you like) edged with wood veneer tape? That will mimic the look of a framed piece of art without the weight of frame glass

In both cases it's very lightweight artwork, if you do a grouping of smaller pieces, so if it does fall down on you it's highly unlikely you'd suffer any injury.

Sorry, I opted to focus on the practical, because to me artwork is a highly personal choice (I make most of my own or use family photographs).

I have a number of things I've hug with various sizes (and quantities, depending on size/weight) of cuphooks. I have to straighten things occasionally - especially after a tremor - but I haven't yet had anything fall off the walls.

I don't know what budget you have, but I love the work of this artist:
http://www.featherfantasies.com/gallery.htm

Personally, I have these above my bed. They may give me a bump if they fell on me, but they're light enough to not do any serious damage - and they are pretty well secured.
http://www.sculpturedecor.com/hemispheres.html

I love that wallpaper too and think that would really nice continued onto that wall.

"Safe above the bed" art that I created was a series of oragami cranes on fishing line (5 strings of them on fishing line, of various lengths with anywhere from 7 to 3 cranes on each string - they were generously spaced). I put two eye screws into the ceiling just about an inch from the wall and strung picture wire between them and suspended my crane chains - hanging vertically - from there. It might be too much in your room with that beautiful paper already there (I had plain painted walls) but I can imagine using other simpler shapes like boxes and doing something similar.

do you like airplants?
seems like they'd go well with the other items
(and are delicate enought not to cause harm if they fell).